Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-11-02
Dee surass,e. on lnsemn,a

mented with sleeplessness, is little
 health book of my own, in which have
 jotted down few-a very few-of the infsllible remedies" for sleeplessness
 which have been tried in thousands-or
 perhaps it was millions of cases, most of which were in the prescribers's own immediate family, or, at the farthsst, circle of intimate friends, and had never once failed to effect permanent and, it is needless to say. instant cure. All of these cases collectively and each one by itself individually were and was ex. actly like my own in cause, duration and operation. The simplicity of the combined remedy appeals ct once to human confidence:
 Eat nothing within three hours before retiring.
 Eat light but substantial luncheon just before going to bed. Nature ab- hors . vacuum. Uhn is one of the prescriptions like).
 Read light literature before going to bed.
 Read nothing after supper. Walk . mile in open air just b. fore bedtime.
 Give up smoking altogether.
 Ifyou are smoker, a cigar just be- fore retiring will soothe and tranquilize your nerves until you can't keep awake.
 Don't think about sleeping; you scare away slumber by wooing the drowsy god.
 Resolutely resolve as you lie down that you "wilf' so to sleep, and sleep will come naturally.
 Lie on your right eide, with your cheek on hour hand.
 Lie on your left side, with your head resting on your arm.
 Count up to one thousand q tried this inhuman bit of idiocy one night. l came very near falling asleep two or three times, but was startled wide- awake by suddenly becoming conscious that l had lost my count and had to be- gin over again. This cure kept me awake one whole night, when was so sleepy could scarcely hold my eyes open. The friend who gave me this is not living now. She was . woman, and I could not as gem tleman offer her violence. So dosed Q box of marshma lows with Rough on Rats, and sent them to her).
 Drink milk. (This, according to my experience, is the best prescription in the lot. It will make you sleep better than all the bromides going, which are snares and delusi1ne. But milk diet not only makes you sleep at night but you want to sleep all the next day. It makes you intolerable stupid all the time. It is . very pleasant, half-awake feeling, if you have nothing else to do but to enjoy falling asleep at any time md in all manner of places, Ike Col Eille in the best-told story of these times, "Indian Summer" but if you nave any work o do it is embarrassing.
 So, what Is sleepless man who wants | 'o sleep going to do! If he eats light | luncheon, smokes . mild cigar, reads | Burner an hour, walks mile in the Iir, comes back and then walks another nile about his room, takes a sponge ,ath, cold, followed by 8 tub bath, warm, drinks pint of milk, jumps into ,ed and lies on both sides, with bic head ,n one arm and one hand, and counts } thousand, it will be time to get up, anyhow, and he can have 6 few nervous its during the day.
 It is fact, however, that even men Eho think they suffer from sleepless- less do not lie awake half so long as hey think they do. When . man says o me. "I did not close my eyes once all light," l know he lies; not intention lily, of course; he thinks he was awake Il night; the probability is that he did lct get to sleep until two hours after lis regular time, and it seemed an sge o him. Really, it isn't often that nan lies awake the whole night trough. am not physician, and annot speak by the book, but believe hat men flo about their sleepless nights nore than any other i'll to which our Teak humanity is heir. Now, take our own case; you remember the last ime you lay awake all night, don't youi |es, see you do. We'll, don't you re- nember that same night you heard the lock strike 2, and then, the next time ou heard it, it struck 7i Yes, I see ou do. Well, that's one of the myste- ies about insomnia that is difficult to xplair. ROBERT J. BURDErrE.
 Live Stock and Wool Markee.